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We consider {\it i)} the overhead minimization of maximum-distance separable (MDS) storage codes for the repair of a single failed node and {\it ii)} the total secure degrees-of-freedom (S-DoF) maximization in a multiple-access compound…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Dimitris S. Papailiopoulos , Alexandros G. Dimakis

Recently Reed-Solomon (RS) codes were shown to possess a repair scheme that supports repair of failed nodes with optimal repair bandwidth. In this paper, we extend this result in two directions. First, we propose a new repair scheme for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Zitan Chen , Min Ye , Alexander Barg

We study the problem of erasure correction (node repair) for regenerating codes defined on graphs wherein the cost of transmitting the information to the failed node depends on the graphical distance from this node to the helper vertices of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Adway Patra , Alexander Barg

For scalar maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, the conventional repair schemes that achieve the cut-set bound with equality for the single-node repair have been proven to require a super-exponential sub-packetization level.As is well…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Wei Zhao , Fang-Wei Fu , Ximing Fu

Maximum distance separable (MDS) codes have the optimal trade-off between storage efficiency and fault tolerance, which are widely used in distributed storage systems. As typical non-MDS codes, simple regenerating codes (SRCs) can achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhengyi Jiang , Hao Shi , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang , Hanxu Hou

In this paper, we present two constructions of degraded read friendly (DRF) MDS array codes with two parity nodes and a sub-packetization level of 2 over small finite fields, applicable for any arbitrary code length. The first construction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang

In distributed storage, erasure codes -- like Reed-Solomon Codes -- are often employed to provide reliability. In this setting, it is desirable to be able to repair one or more failed nodes while minimizing the repair bandwidth. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Jay Mardia , Burak Bartan , Mary Wootters

Recently, network error correction coding (NEC) has been studied extensively. Several bounds in classical coding theory have been extended to network error correction coding, especially the Singleton bound. In this paper, following the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-08 Xuan Guang , Fang-Wei Fu , Zhen Zhang

Regenerating codes are efficient methods for distributed storage in storage networks, where node failures are common. They guarantee low cost data reconstruction and repair through accessing only a predefined number of arbitrarily chosen…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Kaveh Mahdaviani , Ashish Khisti , Soheil Mohajer

This paper considers a distributed storage system, where multiple storage nodes can be reconstructed simultaneously at a centralized location. This centralized multi-node repair (CMR) model is a generalization of regenerating codes that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Ankit Singh Rawat , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Sriram Vishwanath

Partial maximum distance separable (PMDS) codes are a kind of erasure codes where the nodes are divided into multiple groups with each forming an MDS code with a smaller code length, thus they allow repairing a failed node with only a few…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Jie Li , Xiaohu Tang , Hanxu Hou , Yunghsiang S. Han , Bo Bai , Gong Zhang

We present a high-rate $(n,k,d=n-1)$-MSR code with a sub-packetization level that is polynomial in the dimension $k$ of the code. While polynomial sub-packetization level was achieved earlier for vector MDS codes that repair systematic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-28 Birenjith Sasidharan , Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , P. Vijay Kumar

As a special class of array codes, $(n,k,m)$ piggybacking codes are MDS codes (i.e., any $k$ out of $n$ nodes can retrieve all data symbols) that can achieve low repair bandwidth for single-node failure with low sub-packetization $m$. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Hao Shi , Zhengyi Jiang , Zhongyi Huang , Bo Bai , Hanxu Hou

The paper is devoted to the problem of erasure coding in distributed storage. We consider a model of storage that assumes that nodes are organized into equally sized groups, called racks, that within each group the nodes can communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Zitan Chen , Alexander Barg

We examine codes, over the additive Gaussian noise channel, designed for reliable communication at some specific signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and constrained by the permitted minimum mean-square error (MMSE) at lower SNRs. The maximum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Ronit Bustin , Shlomo Shamai

Error-correcting codes are essential for ensuring fault tolerance in modern distributed data storage systems. However, in practice, factors such as the failure rates of storage devices can vary significantly over time, resulting in changes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Haoming Shi , Weijun Fang , Yuan Gao

In this paper, a new repair scheme for a modified construction of MDS codes is studied. The obtained repair scheme has optimal bandwidth for multiple failed nodes under the cooperative repair model. In addition, the repair scheme has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xing Lin , Han Cai , Xiaohu Tang

This thesis makes several significant contributions to the theory of both Regenerating (RG) and Locally Recoverable (LR) codes. The two principal contributions are characterizing the optimal rate of an LR code designed to recover from $t$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 S. B. Balaji , P. Vijay Kumar

In an $(n,k,d)$ rack-aware storage model, the system consists of $n$ nodes uniformly distributed across $\bar{n}$ successive racks, such that each rack contains $u$ nodes of equal capacity and the reconstructive degree satisfies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Hengming Zhao , Dianhua Wu , Minquan Cheng

A $(k+r,k,l)$ binary array code of length $k+r$, dimension $k$, and sub-packetization $l$ is composed of $l\times(k+r)$ matrices over $\mathbb{F}_2$, with every column of the matrix stored on a separate node in the distributed storage…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Lan Ma , Qifu Tyler Sun , Shaoteng Liu , Liyang Zhou